Abocado in english

abocado

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» abocado a
= fated to
; set on
; destined to
; destined for
.

Example: Macintosh seems fated to play a minor supporting role both in business and libraries.Example: ALA membership seems set on self-destruction if its demand for total involvement and 100% democracy continues.Example: The result was that by the close of the 1940s, when ADI was revived, new interests were developing which were destined to overthrow the preeminence of microfilm as a documentation concern.Example: China's oil industry, like the economy as a whole, is destined for big changes.

» abocado al fracaso
= failing
; doomed
; destined to + failure
.

Example: Rejuvenation of listless, stagnant, or failing library operations is possible through renewal methods dependent on strengthening the communication function.Example: Unlike in 1990 when the genre seemed doomed, it has become an increasingly robust and acceptable segment of American publishing.Example: The more we saw of the place the more I felt that it was destined to failure.

Example: Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people.Example: The bureaucratic infrastructure of libraries may well ensure that work with teenagers is doomed from the outset.Example: The implementation of the Public Information Center (PIC) concept was agreed by the library administration in 1970 but seemed doomed from the start.

Example: The implementation of the Public Information Center (PIC) concept was agreed by the library administration in 1970 but seemed doomed from the start.Example: The bureaucratic infrastructure of libraries may well ensure that work with teenagers is doomed from the outset.Example: The first stratagem has been doomed to failure from its inception.Example: Cooperation is doomed to failure unless the importance of information for solving social and economic problems is realised = La cooperación está abocada al fracaso desde el principio a menos que se tenga en cuenta la importancia de la información para solucionar problemas sociales y económicos.Example: Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people.

» abocado al olvido
= doomed to + oblivion
; destined to + oblivion
.

Example: Up until then the conventional wisdom had it that the Liberal Democrats were doomed to oblivion based on their poll ratings.Example: Men who yesterday seemed destined to oblivion have, today, acquired immortality.

» abocado a + Verbo
= doomed to + Verbo
.

Example: 'Punch' satirised the opponents more cruelly: 'Here is an institution doomed to scare the furious devotees of laissez faire'.

Example: We are all aware of the nature of the threshold on which the catalog -- that often maligned instrument that spells the difference between the library as a chaotic warehouse of recorded artifacts and a coherent collection of information organized for efficient access -- is poised.

» estar abocado a
= be poised to
; have + (all) the makings of
; head in + the direction (of/to)
.

Example: The compact disc, which has already revolutionised domestic audio entertainment, is poised to exert quite as big an influence on the world of the business user.Example: Add to that the fact that I've been feeling shitty for days and you have the makings of major drama.Example: 10 years ago, I was heading in the direction to have a career sitting behind a desk, crunching numbers and hating my career.

» estar abocado a ser
= be doomed
.

Example: We are on the way to a transformed library service, total in design (and anything less than totality is doomed as a has-been today).